Part of speech: verb
Verb type: weak verb (2)
1. to plunder, loot; 2. to devastate, ravage
Etymology
[Mod E HARRY, HARROW ← here n; O Fris ur-heria “to to destroy, devastate”; O Sax herion “to plunder, pillage”; OHG heroin, herrōn “to destroy, lay waste” (Mod G verheeren); Icel herja “to plunder, despoil, lay waste; to wage war”]
Paradigm
4.2.2. - 2nd class weak verbs
The second class of the weak verbs is marked by the presence of the Prot-Germ suffix *-ō-, preserved in the Anglo-Saxon in the form of short vowel -o- of the past tense suffix: macode (made); lufode (loved), etc.
| II class | infinitive | past tense singular |
| to look (at); to see | lócian, lóciȝan | lócode |
| to love | lufian | lufode |
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